Sophia McDougall

Sons were suspects in nearly one in five cases of women killed by men in UK in past year Figures recorded by Femicide Census in past 12 months indicate highest rate of matricide in 16 years

An extraordinarily English way to say "1 out of every 5 English women murdered last year was murdered by her own son"

Narratively having Ever Given getting stuck in 2021 to set up Hormuz in 2026 is great foreshadowing. You want your audience to understand the basics of international shipping in a lower stakes context so you drop the real plot without a lot of saggy exposition about the minutiae of cargo logistics.

The whole point of defending the right for uncomfortable, or even reprehensible fiction to have the right to exist isnt that its all cool and nothing is ever wrong with it

Its that government/corpo organizations will NEVER look at things with the """nuance""" you think is so self evident

Actually, this on a banknote

Hello, rest of world. Today in Britain the leaders of mainstream political parties have been debating whether putting native woodland creatures on our banknotes is emblematic of our tragic decline as a patriotic nation, and we hope things are equally weird with you.

Jesus fucking Christ.

we should replace the statue of churchill in parliament square with a hedgehog

not a statue of a hedgehog

a hedgehog

Please don't be so silly.

Media & publishing have been decimated; the thing I came up doing, criticism, that’s been decimated. I look around me & see mass destruction from greedy rich people & tech barons. The *last things* we had left were our names & identities. Now slop creeps wanna violate that too & just take them. NO 🖕🏻

80s singer Thomas Dolby on raising queer kids: "the eldest is trans, the middle is a lesbian, and the youngest is a drummer"

The 3 genders

kind of goes without saying but the punctuation in Cormac McCarthy is not a mistake

Pathetic.

This is like when people claim an SF movie or novel or whatever isn't really SF because it's about real things, as if this isn't the whole fucking point of SF

America has already murdered a thousand civilians, including hundreds of children, can they maybe merit a mention, please.

Title: "The Haters" panel 1. Two round characters sit in a cinema. Yellow blob "I hate this!" Red Blob "Me too!" Panel 2. They have left the cinema Red blob "I hated every minute of that film! It was nothing like the book!" Panel 3. "Did you like the book?" asks Yellow. Red replies "I hated it!" then asks "You?" Panel 4. Yellow blob "I've not read it. I hated the film purely on its own merits." Panel 5. Red blob "I'll lend you my copy." Yello blob"That's very kind." Panel 6. Caption: "Later" Yellow, reading the book "I hate this!" Red (happily) "I knew you would!!"

"the Haters" my books cartoon for this week's @theguardian.com

"Don't be so careful in time of death" is the motto I live by right now.

It’s as if 400 people were simply euthanized by the passive voice. Doubleplusgood.

The DOJ released evidence, which the FBI deemed credible, that the President of the United States sexually and physically assaulted a 13 year old girl AND she was afraid to talk about it because Trump would kill her—and it’s somehow not the biggest scandal in American history?

I need every single male artist that follows me to read this. It's not very long. You need to bear witness to this shit. You have to see it with your own eyes because you never will in your everyday life.

I'm serious, read it all please

maybe you should try making therapy since all your movies are flopping anyway

Unlike some others, I strongly support public inquiries (and gave evidence in person to COVID inquiry). But only if we learn from them. We @independentsage.bsky.social showed many COVID failures due to forgetting Philips inquiry into BSE. Now history repeating itself with Chilcot 👇

A common argument put forward by British AI boosters is that we *have to* hand the life’s work of the UK’s creatives to AI companies, because other countries are doing so.

But they are wrong, for three reasons.

🧵 1/6

Pretty difficult to refute a single thing in this perfect assessment of where the f**k we are, from @iandunt.bsky.social:

Oh, I'm cool with it, actually. What better anti-war message could there be than "Tony Blair thinks this is a good idea"?

The United Kingdom, our once Great Ally, maybe the Greatest of them all, is finally giving serious thought to sending two aircraft carriers to the Middle East. That's OK, Prime Minister Starmer, we don't need them any longer -- But we will remember. We don't need people that join Wars after we've already won! President DONALD J. TRUMP

History lesson.

Our once great ally didn't come to our aid until 1917.

Our once great ally didn't come to our aid again until 1941.

You've got to be kidding me...

I don’t want any more firefly leave me alone

I really do dislike this aggressive informality in corporate comms sometimes

We're 18 months off 'uwu it seems you've been a smol bean and not paid the mortgage. We're evictereening you in 14 days'

Labour urged to listen to progressive voters or face ‘political earthquake’ in London Exclusive: Senior party figures share data suggesting Green surge could put Labour in fourth place in capital in May

They won't. They are going to get shafted. They are going to deserve it. And it's going to be hilarious.